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Berbice pontoon service resumes

May 23, 2013 News

The pontoon service, between New Amsterdam and Rosignol Ferry Stellings, resumed on Monday. The service that benefits school children and workers who cross the Berbice River and who escape the high fares charged by the Berbice River Bridge, was down for nearly a month due to mechanical problems.
Transport and Harbours Department, after many complaints from passengers, stepped in to institute a subsidy that allowed passengers to pay just $60 to travel across the River with specific minibuses who signed on to the arrangement between them and T&HD.
The subsidy arrangement between T&HD and a few minibus operators started when workers and school children paid $60 to travel across the Berbice River purchased a ticket at either stelling and joined the buses participating in the arrangement, in the stelling.
Kaieteur News understands that the minibus operators were reimbursed the difference by T&HD.
Now that the pontoon service has returned, school children and workers have expressed joy since the entire month saw them spending excessive money on transportation costs to get across the Berbice River.

 

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